I am Rachel Choppin a sophomore and McDaniel College. I am studying Cinema. I enjoy watching movies, music, watching vampire diaries, new girl, and i used to play lacrosse. I created this blog to post reflections for my SIS: Once Upon a Time: Folk Tales. Enjoy!

Sunday, March 3, 2013

A Jungian View of Fairy Tales

Wise old man ex. Gandalf

Normally you wouldn’t think that psychology and fairy tales
would have much in common or have any kind of relationship with one another but
they do. Fairy tales and Jungian psychoanalysis have a relationship with each
other that includes many things. For starters Carl Jung said that between all
people is a collective unconscious, which is shared by all people and contains
the universal experiences of humankind throughout revolution. This has to do
with fairy tales in particular because fairy tales are an example of the
collective unconscious. Many fairy tales came about at the same time but in
very different places of the world with the same kind of story lines. Also
according to Dr. Mazeroff Jungian psychoanalysis includes many archetypes that
we see in most if not all fairy tales. For example some of those archetypes are
the wise old mad, the primeval forest, the trickster, the shadow, etc. All of
these archetypes are what we see in many fairy tales. Also another one of the Jungian
psychoanalysis relationship to fairy tales is the themes that we see in fairy
tales such as the family romance which means that the child is living with a
family that is not her real family, he hero’s journey, and the departure to
call. All of these themes we have seen in fairy tales such as Hansel and
Gretel, Little Red Cap, and Beauty and the Beast.